Conmmuters have faced a three-year delay in the delivery of the arty cafe commissioned by Transport for London bosses

With the repair works to building coming in at £58,626.84, the total amount spent by TfL on the project was a whopping £204,462.09.

The figures, obtained by The Sun via a Freedom of Information request, heap further pressure on TfL, whose operational deficit has swollen from £171m in 2012/13 to £458m in 2016/17, and is predicted to hit £968m in 2018/19.

In its FoI response, a spokeswoman for TfL said: ““The project was conceived in Spring 2015 as a mini regeneration project to repair a former newsagents owned by TfL on the station approach that had lain derelict for over a decade.

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